Afshawn Lotfi
@afshawnl
Followers
2K
Following
2K
Media
187
Statuses
900
chief space cowboy @OpenOrionOrg 🚀 building jet and rocket engines with code dream big
SF, LA soon
Joined September 2021
Sometimes I wonder how I just picked a few textbooks up and figured this shit out on my own.
15
5
181
If Apple pretty much made XReal glasses with better stability and over AirPlay that would be an orders of magnitude better product than Vision Pro. Really impressed with video quality and how light they are.
0
0
7
Everyone I knew at Tesla and SpaceX has started their own companies. I swear better incubator of hard tech companies than YC.
2
0
13
I don't believe in an AI bubble. Only an AI grift bubble. There are so many people doing incredible things with AI in medicine, physics, chemistry and way more. The people worried about an AI bubble are the same people that were worried about a crypto/web3 bubble.
0
0
10
RT @somefoundersalt: @DanielleFong if the luma event asks you for your linkedin I don’t even bother going anymore tbh, almost guaranteed to….
0
1
0
I had a professor in college that told us he had a friend that was one of the very few people who operated the SR-71. He told us one time they had dinner plans and his friend told him "I'm going to Japan today", and so my prof said "so should we reschedule dinner tonight" to.
0
0
10
Have this quote highlighted in possibly the best book on scientific revolutions anytime someone tries to bullshit me about prior experience.
2
3
20
I feel like this is just the lifecycle of most tech companies. Small Players get big and stop innovating. Takes founders with a certain level of OCD that never gets comfortable with how things are even at "stability". Chaos is the only way to keep innovating.
Big labs are getting comfortable, pushing small improvements, giving excuses to obvious limitations, and laughing at alternatives. Meanwhile, a silent revolution is taking place, by some who cared enough to measure the shortcomings of these systems, and now seek to address them.
0
1
12
All I see is all the CFD simulations that went on to get to this point. Wish more companies would show the engineering process more intricately, would make the more technical more mainstream. Really appreciated when @boomaero did this with XB-1
The first grid fin for the next generation Super Heavy booster. The redesigned grid fins are 50% larger and higher strength, moving from four fins to three for vehicle control while enabling the booster to descend at higher angles of attack.
1
3
58
Checksum of master plan. SHA256(master_plan.txt)= dab77a89e68065d60d58949092e897b1df4fbd98e74d36ac2216255d68277032.
1
0
6
Someone made a laser beam solver for simulating welding in OpenFoam available for free: I freaking love open source man.
1
1
14
Have you ever wanted to have the opportunity of getting roasted by Linus Torvalds. I created a system prompt based on all his old reviews that allows you to import into any Coding Agent and get your chance today!.
Today, Linus Torvalds told a Google engineer that his code (updating RISC-V support in the Linux kernel) is “garbage” which “makes the world actively a worse place to live”. Adding that the Google engineer’s code needs to “get bent”. As you might have guessed, Torvalds has
3
11
80
Since this post is taking off, if you want to work on Open Source CAD and CAE and make it better we are hiring. Feel free to apply online or DM me.
Want to work on open source multi physics simulations and advanced engineering design automation? Please apply below or DM me. We are cooking something absolutely insane right now and love you to be apart of it.
5
3
73
The Case for Open Source CAD: Beyond Cost Savings. When discussing the merits of open source computer-aided design (CAD) software, many focus solely on the cost-saving aspect. However, this perspective misses the broader and more profound benefits that open source CAD brings to.
0
0
4
LMAO I feel so vindicated right now. Open source or nothing. We should own our damn software.
47
33
770